Top 100 What They Think Quotes
#1. We don't condone it, but it happened. Is there a concern Yes, there is a concern. People are going to think what they think. But the reality is, I know the players we have, I know the character we have. We're recruiting the right people.
Larry Coker
#2. If you're with someone, but you're constantly worried about what they think of you, you're with the wrong person.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#3. People would be so much more interesting if they'd behave like who they are, and not like what they think others expect them to be.
Dov Davidoff
#4. I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.
James Frey
#5. I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
William Faulkner
#6. It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
Rod Serling
#7. I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.
Scott Ian
#8. Everybody loves baseball regardless of what they think about politics. That's the cool thing. You see all of the politicians and the military interaction. It's special. It cracks me up that politicians are such big baseball fans. You don't realize that. You just assume they wouldn't have time.
Drew Storen
#9. People look at me and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.
Shari Sebbens
#10. Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.
Guy Kawasaki
#11. Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.
Paul Hoffman
#12. Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.
Marc Hauser
#13. Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.
Nia Long
#14. I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
Amy Heckerling
#15. Many people do not think very often about what they think about. They just let their thoughts live inside their head, without observing or questioning them.
Henry Cloud
#16. Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.
Jon Kyl
#17. To prohibit what they think pernicious, is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction.
John Stuart Mill
#18. In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it.
Vincent Nichols
#20. Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.
Amy Tan
#21. People are only what they think of themselves.
Ai Yazawa
#22. It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.
Gwynne Dyer
#23. Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
Steve Harvey
#24. The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.
Theodore Roosevelt
#25. I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
Kim Gordon
#26. You just have to live your life with confidence, not caring what they think. Just shake off the drama because you know you're better than they think you are!
Karen Gibbs
#28. Oh, people will think what they think! ... Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.
Cynthia Lord
#29. Labelling of children. Children are described as 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' etc. from an early age, and certainly far too early for them to have made up their own minds on what they think about religion.
Richard Dawkins
#30. If you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.
Megan Fox
#31. I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#32. The trouble with market research is that people don't think how they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.3
David Lewis
#33. Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.
Julie Andrews
#34. I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
Ernest Gaines
#35. I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.
Mitt Romney
#36. Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Duke Ellington
#37. Personally, I prepare exactly the same for every game: I don't think, "I'm going to have to do extra here because of what they think of us." But if you're an England player you do tend to be told how much everyone hates you.
Ben Morgan
#38. Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good ... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Pope Francis
#39. Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
Marcel Proust
#40. Sagittarians rarely talk about their feelings - they talk about what they think about their feelings.
Joanna Martine Woolfolk
#41. Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo Coelho
#42. What people say often precedes what they think. Some people sometimes say, "I have to hear myself talk before I know what I think." I think language sometimes, because it opens new channels, it opens new doors, is enormously important.
John Elkington
#43. As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.
Robert Longo
#44. Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
Phil McGraw
#45. Some People..If you could buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth ... You would never have to worry about money again.
Tim Kirkland
#46. Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.
Jon Meacham
#47. You have the rap industry trying to stay above water by giving the people what they want, but then you have the people who are partaking in it and seeing it and they want what they think these artist have.
Rahki
#48. Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.
John Knowles
#49. But I had learned long ago that you actually probably don't want to know what kind of guy your besties think you ought to be with. It always says more as much about what they thing of you as what they think of him, and I find a certain comfort in being ignorant of what my pals might envision for me.
Stacey Ballis
#50. That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of being wise, take great delight to shew what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs.
Thomas Hobbes
#51. The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
Huangbo Xiyun
#52. A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.
Stephan Pastis
#53. This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
Elmer Davis
#54. Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.
Randy Pausch
#55. Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.
Juliet Marillier
#56. I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.
David Bowie
#57. Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
Noam Chomsky
#58. Honey, five-years-olds say what they think. Knowing what to say and when is called being an adult.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#59. I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.
Mindy Kaling
#60. The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Victoria Magazine
#61. Damn them for tormenting me! Don't they see I'm not what they think? That they are casting upon me the weight of their own hopes? Their own dreams? No one should be asked to carry such a burden. It's impossible! He
Ian C. Esslemont
#62. Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe remember you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
#63. It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think
Eugene Ionesco
#64. The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.
Stephen L. Carter
#65. That's what people do when they're in love. They make crazy decisions. They do what they think is best, and sometimes it turns out to be a mistake.
Dan Krokos
#67. Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.
Miyuki Miyabe
#68. I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.
Julia Garner
#69. People will feel for you what they think you feel for yourself. It's that simple.
Natalia Sylvester
#70. Don't apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong.
David D. Burns
#71. Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.
Loretta Lynch
#72. People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
Carl Jung
#73. I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
Maurice Sendak
#74. People adapt to you. Don't worry, you can't alter what they think of you to any great degree, and by the same token what they think of you can't alter you.
Carrie Fisher
#75. It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
Penn Jillette
#76. Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those things.
John Legend
#77. Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.
John Cornyn
#78. I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.
Steven Soderbergh
#79. Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach,
Eleanor Duckworth
#80. I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.
Cobie Smulders
#81. When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.
Joel Kinnaman
#82. What gentlemen say and what they think are two different things.
Margaret Mitchell
#83. It doesn't matter what someone is. Only what they think they are.
V.E Schwab
#84. You go outside with me right now, we'll ask twelve people on the street what they think about Jews. And all I need's one.
Roy Payne
#85. I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.
RuPaul
#86. Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
Edmund Phelps
#87. Give the people what they think they want.
George Ade
#88. Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.
James Dashner
#89. Fuck what they think. This is about doing what I love, following my dreams. If they like it, that's just icing on the cake. If I lived my life worried about everyone else, I would go insane.
Teresa Mummert
#90. Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#91. The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
Imtiaz Ali
#92. More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
Brian Lamb
#93. Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.
Owen Pallett
#94. If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.
Walter Lippmann
#95. If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.
Christopher R. Hill
#96. Unfortunately, it doesn't ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.
Kenneth Eade
#97. Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
William Gibson
#98. I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.
Alanis Morissette
#99. It's not what they think of me that matters - but what I think of them.
Queen Victoria
#100. Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
Henry Miller
